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Sana Muhammad crossbow death: Jury discharged by judge | Sana Muhammad crossbow death: Jury discharged by judge |
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The jury has been discharged in the trial of a man accused of murdering his pregnant ex-wife with a crossbow. | |
Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, 51, denied shooting his former wife Sana Muhammad at her home in Ilford, east London, on 12 November 2018. | |
Mrs Muhammad, 35, was nine months pregnant. Her son was delivered by Caesarean section and survived. | |
The Old Bailey jury was discharged for legal reasons and a retrial has been provisionally set for 4 November. | |
Mr Unmathallegadoo had also denied a charge of the attempted destruction of the unborn baby. | |
Jurors had deliberated for four days before Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC ordered that the case be re-tried by another jury. | |
During the trial, the court heard Mr Unmathallegadoo spent two hours moving two crossbows, bolts, a hammer, a knife in a homemade sheath, cable ties and duct tape into his ex-wife's garden shed. | |
When her new husband, Imtiaz Muhammad, took a box out to the shed, he found the defendant brandishing the crossbows, jurors heard. | |
Mrs Muhammad was shot and fatally injured on the stairs of her house, which prosecutor Peter Wright QC told the jury was a "deliberate and quite calculated act of revenge". | |
However, Mr Unmathallegadoo had told the court he fired the crossbow by accident and the weapon had been bought for a hunting trip in Mauritius. |
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